New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-17
THE TALK OF THE DAP.

The average Engfshman is beginning vaguely to
suspect that tho water Of the river Thames Is not
so pure as It might be- correspondent OF "fhe
London Daily Telegraph" sends that journal ettcr
Of about fifty written with the sediment Oh
three ounces Of Thames water, taken from near inc
Naval College at Greenwich.
BY means of an air gun Professor c.. L. Mees has
found that drive into pine boards and hickory
bark velocity of 20 10 I7J miles hour Is necessary
The professors discovery, IL IL Thought, VIII eohicr
about as much benefit generations YET UNBORN %
the bagdng of a asteroid weighing lf,oOoVoV
TONS Some of wouldn't become excited ABOUT ~
II 1t required velocity of 1900 mites an hour 70
drive straws into pine boards. What good 90 tney
do the pine boards anyway No more than to drive
a pine board Into straw Norrfstown Herald
The ST. Louis papers refer sneeIfngy the "unreal
estate Doom" OF Kansas City. If the Kansas City
papers DONE steps at to avenge this deadly
insult, they haven't got much asandr as we have
given them credit for.
"The Boston Traveller wants a monument erected
at the Hub In memory of Mother Goose, who was
born In Charlestown and was a member OF the on
Hand that ever drew cemo and delight from
Mother Goose me.odies would contribute penny
"A splendid memorial Of the old lady could be raised
-tsDrngled Union
"TIe Boston Courier tells of a handsome young
fellow at OF the seaside resorts who dressed In
white flannel Of stylish cut, and "a erowDing touch
of elegance he his FIJI embroidered In blue
silk the breast pocket of his shirt He proved
upon inquiry to be good hearted young clerk with
"A passionate desire 10 be "swel" but with no more
social peroeptveness than possessed by the lonely
oyster In the traditional church festival stew.
al see, remarked Miss Eeebored, turning around
on the piano stool " that the Duke OF saxe-Coburs
GOtha can compose music very really"
/ think III invite the duho in then replied h, her
father, there's some music a00tt nus house ui@e
sadly needs composns"-tlit Chronicle.
Minneapolis claims to have the largest law pub
fishing house In the world. IL publishes weekly
of all ded In he Gunrc Court
the United States, the United States Circuit and
district Courts and the Supreme Courts Of all the
states and Territories. Nine separate publications
issued weekly. each covering separate district
"Whcelbarrow parties" are the latest society SEN
sation in Louis. swell young in great numbers
may be seen on fashionable streets every evening
wheeling beautiful Young ladies'
Telephone Mantle progress Of science and In
vention Is simply wonderful. DO you know Elisha
Gray has Just patented invention by which a
man, signature can lie duplicated 80 miles away:
sit's fact And i way has been found to talk
across the ocean"
'True and another inventor has found y way to
transfer mans portrait ior hundreds Of miles, 50 ths
at the other end can know who nc 5 'ahlng 10,
AYos. Well, Just wish you'd send a man up to look
my telephone ] haven't been able to use 1t Tor
a week. - Omaha World
4 young clergyman who has been laborlng In the
mountain regions of Kentucky says THE ministers
in tho mountain regions are ignorant. They never
preach when there is an educated person In tho
congregation, which seldom happens. The Methodist
ministers arc little better than the Baptists they
generally own Bible and concordance, but they
think they know all there Is to know one minister
who listened to the debate the shape Of tho earth
said I ought to BE- drurnmed out OF the place for
teaching such mfidelity. One man asked me- to go
home with him and fix his clock He thought because
I had been 10 college / could do anything Luckily
for me- ] happened to fix tho clock so 10 would CO.
The ministers preach about once month but never
think Of doing SO every Sunday. One minister
knew hail been In the renteniiary, and It was my
impression that he ought to have remained there
Tho religious fervor of many of them is above 100
white their morality is ut zero"
4 Professor CrOcher has taught horse 10 sit down
on his launches without lying, feat which Is said
never 10 have been ACCOMPLISHED before Man
stlI has tho bulge the horse however. The former
can sit down without lying or he can lie without
rme: but n he Is Democratic editor, and Is going
to write an article BlaEe he can't sit down without
lying.-(NorrstOwn Herald
Edison found large quantity Of milk too much
waicred To used. one can contained Lively bog'"
Tho COW that associates terms Of too great intimacy
with frugs Is dangerous mcmber of the community.
This was the heroic treatment prescribed for the
bite Of n mad dog In 100, a. given In Boerhaaves
"Apiorsrns-: The Method to preserve one nom
further Harm, requires ul That Immediately after
the Poison ID communicated. the whole affected Pace,
fed very deep and Blooi be drawn D. great Quantity,
by Of large Glasses laid the scaxihed Parts
or the same be burned deep with a rel-hos iron then
tho Part be made to suppurate for a long while BY
of such things ulcerate BY their Constant
Corrosveness In the mesntms from tho Beginning Of
tho Cure 10 tho End, fvnient tho Parts With PcAn
made Of Baysat ami Vinegar; aud these things eAehs
to be continued until the sixth month hvu she nrsa
Accident (e) The Clothes and other things Which
may have been touched With tho Poison, that tho
mai Animal has breathed upon, ought to be LAID aldo
ana carefully avoided
The statistics OF the watermelon crop not 1t
band but Georgia seems to lead, while closely afeer
lt Florida, Alabama ami mississippi Texas
IL going a bong way toward supplying the North
western cities, and Tennessee, North CAUlina and
Virginia are producing largely for local consumption
as well for shipment In the months OF July aid
August These states have the advantages Of near
ness tho markets. and consequently cheaper
transportation charges, but these JAset & soRle
extent by tho comparatively low prices that obtain
when thelr melous reach the consuiners-tJacksOn
Vile Times Union.